Managing Knowledge Flashcards
is an economic system where knowledge, information, and other intellectual capabilities of humans are the primary drivers of growth, productivity and innovation; features a highly skilled workforce, knowledge workers, who generate value for the organization through their expertise, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills
knowledge economy
raw facts
data
data that has been shaped into a form meaningful to humans
information
discovering patterns, rules, contexts where information is useful, concepts, experience, and insight that provide an understanding for creating, evaluating, and using information
knowledge
is the collective individual experience of applying knowledge to get a solution to a problem; involves where, when, and how to apply knowledge
wisdom
knowledge that has been documented somewhere (20%)
explicit knowledge
knowledge that employees know that has NOT been documented somewhere (80%)
tacit knowledge
involves acquiring, storing, disseminating, and applying an organizations explicit and tacit knowledge to meet objectives
knowledge management
four processes of knowledge management
acquisition, storage, dissemination, application
generating and creating knowledge
knowledge acquisition
documenting the knowledge in a digital form, so it can be stored and used later on
knowledge storage
making the captured knowledge accessible to those who need it
knowledge dissemination
using the disseminated knowledge which can lead to more knowledge that needs to be acquired
knowledge application